Interesting. How will defense lawyers react?
Stay tuned.
The FBI's
'Unprecedented' Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers
… Just a month after launch, Playpen had
nearly 60,000 member accounts. By the following year, this number
had ballooned to almost 215,000, with over 117,000 total posts, and
an average of 11,000 unique visitors each week. Many of those posts,
according to FBI testimony, contained some of the most extreme child
abuse imagery one could imagine, and others included advice on how
sexual abusers could avoid detection online.
… A month before this peak, in February 2015,
the computer server running Playpen was seized by law enforcement
from a web host in Lenoir, North Carolina, according to a complaint
filed against Peter Ferrell, one of the accused in New York.
… But after Playpen was seized, it wasn't
immediately closed down, unlike previous dark web sites that have
been shuttered by law enforcement. Instead, the FBI ran Playpen
from its own servers in Newington, Virginia, from February 20 to
March 4, reads a complaint filed against a defendant in Utah. During
this time, the FBI deployed what is known as a network investigative
technique (NIT), the agency's term for a hacking tool.
… Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan in the
Eastern District of Virginia, who signed the warrant used for the
NIT, did not respond to questions on whether she understood that the
warrant would grant the power to hack anyone who signed up to
Playpen, or whether she consulted technical experts before signing
it, and her office said not to expect a reply.
But Fieman said that the warrant “effectively
authorizes an unlimited number of searches, against unidentified
targets, anywhere in the world.”
For my Computer Security students (and my Ethical
Hacking students) Make sure you are not using the defaults!
Researchers
Publish Default Passwords for ICS Products
… The
list, dubbed “SCADAPASS,”
contains default credentials for industrial routers, programmable
logic controllers (PLC), wireless gateways, servers and network
modules
The SEC thinks there is some hanky-panky going on,
but doesn't know how to detect it. So they create a non-profit to
detect it and report it to the people doing it in the hope that they
will stop doing it?
Wall Street
to Get Graded on How Much Spoofing It's Facilitating
U.S. regulators have grown so concerned that
traders are using high-speed computers to manipulate markets that
they’re planning a new tactic to clamp down on the practice --
rating brokers on how much spoofing flows through their order books.
The
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said it plans to issue
report cards this year that will grade firms on how many phony bids
to buy or sell stock they might have a role in facilitating. Finra,
a market cop funded by Wall Street, expects brokers to use the
assessments to root out any misconduct, the regulator said Tuesday in
its annual letter on exam priorities. The
reports won’t be made public.
DHS and TSA are looking for the most favorable
spin on the laws governing them. Sometimes “interpretation”
becomes “wishful thinking.” Sometimes they spin out of control.
From Papers, Please!:
In response to a flurry of publicity kicked off by a story last week in the New York Times in which we were quoted, the DHS has posted several new or updated pages about the REAL-ID Act on its website, including a new page headed, “REAL ID and You: Rumor Control“.
Not surprisingly, the DHS is still lying about what the REAL-ID Act requires.
Read more on Papers,
Please!
I kinda thought we had not heard the end of this.
Cyrus Farivar reports:
The Kentucky man whose drone was shot down by his neighbor last year has now filed a federal lawsuit, asking the court to make a legal determination as to whether his drone’s July 2015 flight constituted trespass. In the case, plaintiff David Boggs also wants the court to rule that he is entitled to damages of $1,500 for his destroyed drone.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
[From
the article:
"The United States Government has exclusive
sovereignty over airspace of the United States pursuant to 49
U.S.C.A. § 40103," Boggs' lawyer, James Mackler, wrote
in the civil complaint. "The airspace, therefore, is not
subject to private ownership nor can the flight of an aircraft within
the navigable airspace of the United States constitute a trespass."
(Related) The first of many?
Drone user
sues feds over registration rules
… The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia, argues that the drone
registration rules put in place last month violate a federal law that
prohibits the FAA from regulating recreational drones.
Everyone believes that the Internet of Things
means we will measure everything. I wonder if that is true.
Intel
embraces Internet of Things, puts sensors on everything
More sensors means more data... which means more
chips to be sold... which means more revenue.
(Related) Do we really need 24/7 surveillance of
our refrigerator?
CES 2016:
Here Is Why Samsung’s Family Hub Is A Fridge Of The Future
People will soon have a fridge equipped with
cameras and a huge display, allowing them to see anything inside
without the need to open its door.
(Related) This follows like night follows day.
The
Extortionist in the Fridge
Perspective. Does this suggest the auto makers
are taking this seriously?
Automakers,
not Silicon Valley, lead in driverless car patents: study
… "Automakers
aren’t as good as technology companies in tooting their own horns,"
Tony Trippe, principal author of the report, told Reuters in an
interview. "But when you look at the patent data, the
automakers are all over this."
Toyota is, far and away, the global leader in the number of
self-driving car patents, the report found. Toyota is followed by
Germany’s Robert Bosch GmbH [ROBG.UL], Japan’s Denso Corp
(6902.T), Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and General Motors
Co (GM.N). The tech company with the most autonomous-driving
patents, Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google, ranks 26th on the list.
An interesting area of law.
Brian Schaller of InfoLawGroup provides yeoman
service by recapping legislative news in 2015 in ed-tech:
There was a lot of legislative movement for the educational technology (ed-tech) industry in 2015 with states placing additional privacy regulations on the industry, and the effects of those new acts should be felt this year. The states that passed this type of legislation in 2015 were following California’s lead. California’s governor signed the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) (2014 Cal SB 1177) back in 2014. Even though these states enacted legislation after SOPIPA, at least one of these acts came into effect before SOPIPA became operative (which was January 1, 2016). Maryland’s Student Data Privacy Act of 2015 (2015 MD H.B. 298) was approved by the governor on May 12, 2015 and took effect July 1, 2015. On August 7, the influential and often business friendly state of Delaware saw its governor approve the Student Data Privacy Protection Act (2015 Del. SS 1 for SB 79). Some of the Delaware act’s provisions became effective upon its enactment into law, but the provisions that have the most impact are effective “August 1 the first full year following the Act’s enactment into law”. Georgia’s Student Data Privacy, Accessibility, and Transparency Act (2015 GA S.B. 89) was signed by the state’s governor on May 6, 2015 and will become effective July 1, 2016. Additional states passed similar legislation such as Arkansas and Virginia. According to an article by the National Association of State Boards of Education released last June, 111 state bills “were aimed at establishing better safeguards for the collection, use, and disclosure of student data.”
Read more on InfoLawGroup.
Perspective.
5
Staggering Email Stats That Are Hard to Believe
Big Data is useless by itself.
Sebastian
Wernicke: How to use data to make a hit TV show
Does collecting more data lead
to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like
Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone
doesn't always produce optimum results. In this talk, data scientist
Sebastian Wernicke breaks down what goes wrong when we make decisions
based purely on data — and suggests a brainier way to use it.
For my next Spreadsheet class.
8 Tips for
How to Learn Excel Quickly
(Related) Dilbert lists the errors my Spreadsheet
Students make.
I don't think there is anything new here.
Paper –
Staying Smart: How Today’s Graduates Continue to Learn Once They
Complete College
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 5, 2016
Project Information Literacy Research Report:
“Staying Smart” | January 5, 2016 | Alison J. Head
Staying
Smart: How Today’s Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete
College – “This report presents findings about the
information-seeking behavior of relatively recent college graduates
used for lifelong learning in personal life, the workplace, and the
local communities where they lived. Included are results from online
surveys of 1,651 respondents and telephone interviews with 126 study
participants who graduated from one of 10 US colleges and
universities between 2007 and 2012. Findings indicated that most
graduates needed to learn a combination of basic and complex life
skills during the past year, such as money-management, how to make
household repairs, and how to advance in their careers and
communicate better on the job. They consulted friends, family , and
coworkers almost as much as the Web. Graduates preferred information
sources that had currency, utility, and interactivity. They also
placed a high premium on curated information systems that were
organized and kept up-to-date, such as libraries, museums, and
bookstores. A model of shared utility is introduced for explaining
graduates’ use of contemporary social media technologies as well as
personal connections they had established with trusted allies.
Graduates reported four
barriers to their continued learning efforts: lack of time, finding
affordable learning sources, staying on top of everything they needed
to know, and staying motivated to keep learning after college.
As a whole, graduates prided themselves on their ability to search,
evaluate, and present information, skill s they honed during college.
Yet, far fewer said that their college experience had helped them
develop the critical thinking skill of framing and asking questions
of their own, which is a skill they inevitably needed in their
post-college lives. Ten recommendations are presented for improving
educational strategies, resources, and services that foster lifelong
learning.”
An Infographic for our “Success Coaches” to
pass along?
Studying
Doesn’t Have To Be a Struggle If You Do It Right
Almost cool enough to convince me to buy a
smartphone.
ScoreCloud
“Like Google Translate for music”
ScoreCloud instantly turns your songs into sheet
music. As simple as that!
-
Instant Score from MIDI or Audio
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Arrange and Edit your Score
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Print, Export and Share
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